“the president” of education
manage all regarding education
responsible for managing budget for education
Right to give a permission to build a school
authority over human resources
Against current government’s “too competitive-oriented” education policies
The need for building creativity
free school meals
The reduction of the student-teacher ratio
making the ev
2) Kwak’s victory
In the election which took place on June 2nd of 2010, the only liberal candidate, Kwak No-hyun won 34.34 percent of the votes, defeating conservative Lee Won-hee by only 1.12 percent. Kwak No Hyun was a presidential advisor under the late President Roh Moo Hyun, a professor at Korea National Open University and the former secretary-general of the National Human Rights Commiss
Background
What is “Free school meals(무상급식)”
Based on the principle of indiscriminate education welfare
Recipients of free school meals:
Undernourished schoolchildren?
All of the students?
Controversy;
Conflict of perspectives and values:
Universal welfare
Selective welfare
Budget constraint
Kim Sang-gon’s election victory (2009.4.15)
As Gyeonggi-do’s superintenden
comes home pushing a baby buggy, struggling with two full bags of groceries, and trying to dig her keys out of her purse. The building superintendent FRANK, sees her struggling but pretends not to notice.
DANA
(exasperated)
Frank, do you think you could give me a hand with these bags?
FRANK
Im not a doorman, Miss Barrett. Im a building superintendent.
DANA
Youre also a human being, Frank.
superintendent of education in Seoul thought differently on ‘Free lunch’ Program. According to the mayor, extension of Free Lunch’s range is needed, but the range can’t exceed 50%. On the contrary, the city assembly and the superintendent of education has different opinions. According to them, ‘Partial Free Lunch’ can make the possibility of the discrimination between the poor and the